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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Sanders fans would ‘shoot every third person on Wall Street’ — 's supporters would open fire on Wall Street. — “One of the few things I really haven't enjoyed about this primary: I think it's fine that all these young students have been so enthusiastic about [Hillary Clinton
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Progressives Today and Althouse
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Perry Bacon Jr / NBC News:
Hillary Clinton Faces a Liberal War Against the 1990s
Hillary Clinton Faces a Liberal War Against the 1990s
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Power Line
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Jill Stein: The Democratic Party ‘fakes left,’ marches right
MSNBC:
Bill Clinton jabs at Bernie Sanders, cracks joke at Wall Street's expense
Bill Clinton jabs at Bernie Sanders, cracks joke at Wall Street's expense
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CNN, Politico and Washington Free Beacon
Collier Meyerson / New Yorker:
Clinton, Sanders, and the Myth of a Monolithic “Black Vote”
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie Sanders secures five minutes with Pope Francis — The US presidential hopeful managed to sit down with pontiff after all. — ROME — Bernie Sanders privately met with Pope Francis at the pontiff's residence in Vatican City on Saturday morning before the pope left on a trip for Greece.
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ABC News, New York Magazine and Politico
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Ines San Martin / CRUX:
Pope Francis calls Sanders greeting only ‘common courtesy’
Pope Francis calls Sanders greeting only ‘common courtesy’
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The Moderate Voice and New York Daily News
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
HOW TRUMP CAN LOCK UP GOP NOMINATION BEFORE THE CONVENTION — WASHINGTON (AP) — To all the political junkies yearning for a contested Republican convention this summer: not so fast. — It's still possible for Donald Trump to clinch the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump likely to win West Virginia but lose delegates — Donald Trump has a new enemy in the fight for national convention delegates: the alphabet. — Trump is well-positioned for a resounding victory in West Virginia's May 10 primary, but his win will be accompanied by a delegate selection process stacked …
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RedState and BizPac Review
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
College student booted from Southwest flight after passenger heard him say ‘God willing’ in Arabic — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A UC Berkeley student whose family fled Iraq in 2002 after his diplomat father was killed under Saddam Hussein's regime, was booted …
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Jon Ronson / Guardian:
Monica Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar’ — Now she's turned that dark time into a force for good — ne night in London in 2005, a woman said a surprisingly eerie thing to Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky had moved from New York a few days earlier to take a master's in social psychology at the London School of Economics.
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The Week
Chris Collins / New York Times:
The Case for Donald Trump — Clarence, N.Y. — AMERICANS are angry. I hear it from the former factory workers who lost their jobs to other countries because of bad trade deals, the veterans who wait months to see a doctor at a Veterans Affairs hospital and the small-business owners …
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Is A Fiercely Loyal Boss Right Up Until He Fires You — For a man who once tried to trademark the phrase “You're fired,” Donald Trump seems awfully eager these days to cast himself as a loyal boss. — With his campaign reeling from tactical blunders and his inner circle gripped by infighting …
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The Week
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Hillary Is Not Sorry — WASHINGTON — IT'S hard not to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton. She is hearing ghostly footsteps. — She's having her inevitability challenged a second time by a moralizing senator with few accomplishments who chides her on her bad judgment on Iraq and special-interest money …
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Foreign Policy
Sean Martin / Daily Express:
END OF HUMANITY? Artificial Intelligence could destroy us ‘WITHIN DECADES’ warns expert — A LEADING scientist involved in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has warned that it could rise up against us and end humanity within decades. — GETTY — AI could destroy humanity ‘within decades’
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Nevada Court Arraignment Of Bundy Brothers Goes Off The Rails — The arraignment of Ammon and Ryan Bundy grew tense Friday as both brothers scoffed when asked to enter pleas in a case regarding their involvement in the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada. — Brian Cavalier …
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Las Vegas Review-Journal and Associated Press
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill — WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow …
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Business Insider, BizPac Review and The Daily Caller
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: Chicago police release video of cop standing on neck of suspect who died during arrest — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Two Chicago police officers have been placed on desk duty after authorities finally released dashcam video showing one of them standing on the neck …
Parag Khanna / New York Times:
Gulf Coast — THESE days, in the thick of the American presidential primaries, it's easy to see how the 50 states continue to drive the political system. But increasingly, that's all they drive — socially and economically, America is reorganizing itself around regional infrastructure lines …
Javier E. David / CNBC:
Corporate tax dodging costing US billions in annual income — Big multinational companies that shelter overseas profit from federal taxation cost the U.S. economy more than $100 billion a year by withholding more than $1 trillion collectively, according to a new study that may inflame the debate over tax fairness.